World Health Week 2019
This year, the Vanderbilt School of Medicine Global Health Organization will present World Health Week during Monday, February 25 - Friday, March 1. World Health Week is committed to spreading awareness about global health, and this year's theme is "Global Health and Anesthesia." Events include lunchtime talks and a global health symposium one evening. Lunch is offered with RSVP. Download the flyer.
VECD Fellow Shares Research from Fellowship Year in Zambia
Vanderbilt Medicine MD/MPH dual-degree candidate, Justin Banerdt, completed his fellowship year as a VECD Fogarty Global Health Fellow in July 2018. He spent his year conducting research focused on the prevalence and outcomes of delirium in a critically ill patient population with a high burden of HIV/AIDS at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in Lusaka, Zambia. UTH is the teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Zambia School of Medicine (UNZA).
VUSM Student Reflects on ISC: Global Health and Research Immersion Experience with Lwala Community Alliance
Sarah Heerboth, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Class of 2019 (expected), recently wrote an article reflecting on her experience working with Lwala Community Alliance in Kenya. Sarah worked at Lwala for her Integrated Science Course (ISC): Global Health, a research immersion course for third- and fourth-year medical students.
VUSM MPH Alumnae Awarded Global Health Corps Fellowships
Two Vanderbilt MPH Program alumnae have been named 2018-2019 Global Health Corps (GHC) Fellows. Grace Umutesi, M.P.H. and Shellese Shemwell, M.P.H. will both work in Rwanda during the upcoming year. Umutesi will serve as a Monitoring, Evaluation and Research Officer with Health Development Initiative, and Shemwell has been named Integrated NCD Program Quality Improvement Coordinator with Partners in Health/Inshuti Mu Buzima.
2018 Global Health Graduates
This year, seven students graduated with a Master of Public Health in Global Health, and 11 received the Graduate Certificate in Global Health. The week leading up to Friday's commencement ceremony involved several events celebrating this year's Global Health graduates, including a dinner and graduation reception.
World Health Week 2018
2018 World Health Week | February 19 – 23
Global Women’s Reproductive Health
Organized by Vanderbilt Global Health Organization in partnership with Medical Students for Choice & Physicians for Human Rights, and funding provided by Vanderbilt University Medical Center’s Office of Diversity Affairs and Council of Class Officers
Daily schedule of guest speakers:
Global Health Opportunities During Medical School for VUSM Students
General Information Session for Medical Students
What: Learn about exciting global health opportunities during medical school
When: Tuesday, July 21 at 5 p.m.
Where: Light Hall 411
"Dr. Vanderbilt" Pageant
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Second-year medical students present global health project posters
Top row - left to right: Ben McCormick, Shanik Fernando, Magdalena Dorvil, Trisha Pasricha, Rosie Korman, Monica Da Silva
